Woman and Child Wage Earners, 1907 [Massachusetts, North Carolina, Chicago, and New York City] (ICPSR 20702)

Citation

Goldin, Claudia. Woman and Child Wage Earners, 1907 [Massachusetts, North Carolina, Chicago, and New York City]. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008-01-08. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR20702.v1

Summary

This data collection contains work and demographic
information on immigrant and native born industrial workers and their
families from Massachusetts, North Carolina, Chicago, and New York
City in the cotton textile and clothing industries. Information
available includes occupation, days worked, earnings, job experience,
literacy, schooling, family income, amounts retained by youths, and
rent paid by the family. Also in the sample is similar information on
young girls and boys working in the same two industries. Other
industries (silk and glass) were surveyed, but are not in this
sample. Data on occupation, earnings, months schooling, literacy,
years since beginning work, days worked, ethnicity, and years in the
United States are included. Also available is information on the
presence of the mother and father, the father's occupation, other
children in the family, family income, the amount retained by working
children, and rent paid.

Citation

Goldin, Claudia. Woman and Child Wage Earners, 1907 [Massachusetts, North Carolina, Chicago, and New York City]. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008-01-08. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR20702.v1

Geographic Coverage

Time Period(s)

Sample

See US Senate Documents, REPORT ON CONDITION OF WOMAN
AND CHILD WAGE-EARNERS IN THE U.S. IN 19 VOLUMES, VOLS. 86-104
(Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1910-1911).

Universe

Industrial workers in the cotton textiles and clothing
industries.

Unit(s) of Observation

individual

Data Source

See: US Senate Documents, REPORT ON CONDITION OF WOMAN
AND CHILD WAGE-EARNERS IN THE U.S. IN 19 VOLUMES, VOLS. 86-104
(Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1910-1911). This Senate
report, from which these data were taken, is a 19-volume study of four
primary industries and various related subjects.

Data Type(s)

Original Release Date

2008-01-08

Version Date

2008-01-08

Version History

2008-01-08 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Notes

Data in this collection are available only to users at ICPSR member institutions.

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